WebSemitic most commonly refers to the Semitic languages, a name used since the 1770s to refer to the language family currently present in West Asia, North and East Africa, and Malta.. Semitic may also refer to:

WebThe Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, the Horn of Africa, and latterly North Africa, Malta, West Africa, Chad, and in large immigrant and expatriate communities in North America, Europe, and Australasia.The terminology was first used in the 1780s by …

WebEdward Sapir (/ s ə ˈ p ɪər /; January 26, 1884 – February 4, 1939) was an American Jewish anthropologist-linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the development of the discipline of linguistics in the United States.. Sapir was born in German Pomerania, in what is now northern Poland.His family emigrated to the …

WebMoney that had been raised during the 1920s and financial backing from the Rockefeller Foundation helped the school to survive through the Great Depression. Nonetheless, in 1933, Hutchins proposed an unsuccessful plan to merge the University of Chicago and Northwestern University into a single university. During World War II, the university's …

Weblan·guage (lăng′gwĭj) n. 1. a. Communication of thoughts and feelings through a system of arbitrary signals, such as voice sounds, gestures, or written symbols. b. Such a system including its rules for combining its components, such as words. c. Such a system as used by a nation, people, or other distinct community; often contrasted with dialect. 2. a. A …

WebAššur is the name of the city, of the land ruled by the city, and of its tutelary deity from which the natives took their name, as did the entire nation of Assyria which encompassed what is today northern Iraq, north east Syria and south east Turkey. Today the Assyrians are still found throughout the Middle East, particularly in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Turkey, and the …

WebGiacomo il Maggiore, detto anche Giacomo di Zebedeo (Betsaida, ...– Gerusalemme, 44), fa parte della lista dei dodici apostoli di Gesù, secondo quanto riportato dai Vangeli e dagli Atti degli Apostoli. È detto «Maggiore» per distinguerlo dall'apostolo omonimo, Giacomo di Alfeo, detto «Minore» o "il fratello del Signore". Figlio di Zebedeo e di Salome, era il …

WebS.Giovanni Evangelista con a fianco il suo simbolo dell'aquila. Affresco di Masolino da Panicale del 1435 nel Battistero di Castiglione Olona(Varese) Lunetta del Portale di ingresso della Collegiata di Castiglione Olona.Nel fregio in basso i simboli dei 4 Evangelisti. 1428. Il secondo da sinistra (aquila) è il simbolo di S. Giovanni Evangelista

WebRostock (German: [ˈʁɔstɔk] ()), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (German: Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock), is the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, close to the border with Pomerania. With around 208,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city on the …

WebIPA symbols. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, pharyngealization can be indicated by one of two methods: . A tilde or swung dash (IPA Number 428) is written through the base letter (typographic overstrike). It is the older and more generic symbol. It indicates velarization, uvularization or pharyngealization, as in [ᵶ], the guttural equivalent of [z].; …